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Audio Books Women of Color Award New Workshops Panel Tips Malice The Sisters in Crime Quarterly Vol. 27 No. 2 Audio Books Women of Color Award New Workshops Panel Tips Malice Memories Get a Clue Editor’s Note Molly Weston.....................3 Laura’s Letter Laura DiSilverio ...................4 The mission of Sisters in Crime is to promote the It’s Not Like Reading professional development and advancement of women crime writers to achieve equality in the industry. Bedtime Stories Linda Lovely......................5 Laura DiSilverio, President Vice President Chapters ............................8 Catriona McPherson, Stephanie Pintoff, Secretary The Eleanor Taylor Bland Julie Hennrikus, Publicity Treasurer Creative Fiction Award for Lori Roy, Martha Reed, Chapter Liaison Writers of Color Sally Brewster, Bookstore Liaison Frankie Bailey ...................14 Carolyn Dubiel, Library Liaison Barbara Fister, Monitoring Project/Authors Coalition Doing Time with Sisters in Crime: Frankie Bailey, At Large Great Beginnings Robert Dugoni, At-Large Laura DiSilverio ..................15 Val McDermid, At-Large Hank Phillippi Ryan, Immediate Past President Acing Your First Panel Molly Weston, inSinC Editor Laura Brennan ...................16 Laurel Anderson, inSinC Proofreader Gavin Faulkner, inSinC Proofreader Excellence with a Dash of Humor: Edgar Marisa Young, inSinC Proofreader Awards 2014 Grand Master, Sarah Glass, Web Maven/Social Media Carolyn Hart Margaret Maron .................18 Beth Wasson, Executive Director Getting Facts Straight PO Box 442124 Leslie Budewitz ..................19 Lawrence, KS 66044-2124 Email: [email protected] Writing Contests ....................20 Phone: 785.842.1325 Fax: 785.856.6314 Killer Instincts Katherine Ramsland, PhD .........21 ©2014 Sisters in Crime International We Love Libraries! Andrea Smith....................22 inSinc is the official publication of Sisters in Crime International and is published four times a year. • One-year dues are $40 for professional US and Canada writers and $35 Beth’s Bits for non-professionals (add $5 for other countries). Two-year dues are $80 and $70; Beth Wasson ....................23 lifetime, $500 and $350. Address and all other changes can be made by members on www.sistersincrime.org. If you do not use a computer or need a user name, please contact Beth Wasson at the address above. Information in inSinC is submitted or Malice Memories....................24 reprinted from sources listed in each article. Where required, permission to reprint has been granted and noted. SinC does not investigate each submission independently and Awards & Nominations articles in no way constitute an endorsement of products or services offered. No mate- Gay Toltl Kinman .................25 rial may be reprinted without written permission from Sisters in Crime. Events & Happenings ................26 The Docket .........................27 Sisters in Crime Past Presidents Sara Paretsky 1987-88 Nancy Pickard 1988-89 Margaret Maron 1989-90 Susan Dunlap 1990-91 Carolyn G. Hart 1991-92 P. M. Carlson 1992-93 his issue brings more than usual! We Linda Grant 1993-94 Barbara D’Amato 1994-95 have many more chapters reporting great Elaine Raco Chase 1995-96 happenings, many more nominations and Annette Meyers 1996-97 Sue Henry 1997-98 wins, a new grant opportunity for women of Medora Sale 1998-99 color, a fantastic workshops in conjunction Barbara Burnett Smith 1999-00 with two conferences, a new SinC tagline, Claire Carmichael McNab 2000-01 Eve K. Sandstrom 2001-02 and all the terrific things as in the past. That said, you’ll Kate Flora 2002-03 Tsee why we’ve added four pages Kate Grilley 2003-04 Patricia Sprinkle 2004-05 Libby Hellmann 2005-06 Several weeks ago I did an informal poll asking about photos—whether you Rochelle Krich 2006-07 wanted more or larger—and the overwhelming response was more. In order to Roberta Isleib 2007-08 incorporate them, I decided to omit captions on the Malice Memories page. Judy Clemens 2008-09 Marcia Talley 2009-10 Cathy Pickens 2010–11 Speaking of photos—some of you are still receiving printed black and white Frankie Bailey 2011–12 versions of inSinC. I hope this doesn’t mean you’re not looking at the full-color Hank Phillippi Ryan 2012–13 online version. Our new layout features some brilliant colored illustrations and I think you’ll find they enrich your reading. Please check it out at tinyurl.com/ Deadline & Submissions ln9jubh . Deadline for articles for the Septem-ber issue of inSinC is No issue of inSinC could be possible without the help of so many Sisters and July 15. Include name, email, mailing address, and phone Brothers—those who contribute articles and photos or who submit chapter hap- number with submissions. Send penings and our proofreaders who check the issues so carefully and then call or columns, articles, high-res photos, write their findings to me. My sincere thanks go out to all of you. I don’t think ideas, praise, and story ideas via I’ve acknowledged the great job Gay Kinman is doing with recognizing awards email to Molly Weston and nominations. Andrea Smith is filling the shoes of Debra Goldstein with the [email protected] We Love Libraries! program. 919.362.1436 Going to conferences always allows me to meet The Docket more of our members. At the Malice banquet, I To list your publications and award nominations, login to met Marisa Young and chatted with her through- SistersinCrime.org out dinner. Near its end I asked if she were a and look for “The Docket” under SinC member. She said she had just joined—and “Members Only.” Fill in the infor- mation, one entry per publication. she’d really like to help the organization. I then Information on the SinC website asked what kind of proofreader she was. When will be updated regularly and will she replied, “meticulous,” she was promoted on be available to anyone under the spot. You’ll find her listed on the masthead. “Resources.” The Docket will con- tinue as an item in inSinC. Have a great summer! —Molly Weston 3 inSinC June 2014 ¡ ¡ s Gershwin Second, plan ahead. When you put it, “Sum- know about the disruptions in mertime . advance, like an upcoming vacation, Laura’s and the living you can plan for them and either Letter is easy. Fish are increase your production by a bit jumpin’ and over the weeks leading up to your the cotton is high.” Well, there’s not departure (if you normally write much cotton in Colorado, but we’ve 1,000 words/day, you can bump that got fish, and summertime is right to 1,250/day and still be on track) around the corner. For many of us, or consciously grant yourself the that means school is out and the kids time off. That latter bit is important, are around all day, needing trans- because if you don’t make a decision A to give yourself a vacation, then (if portation to activities, play dates arranged and supervised, or just you’re at all like me) you’re likely to fret about chapters not getting writ- basic care and feeding. For others, ten while you should be kicking back summer means vacations, week- with the fam and a tasty margarita. end camping trips, and a lawn and tage of the opportunity for renewal garden that tempt us away from our Third, be flexible. Be prepared to and relaxation. write at unusual (for you) hours or computers and works in progress. All But don’t quit writing entirely. I tried of summer’s delights and challenges in strange places (in your in-laws’ that one summer and lost so much can wreak havoc on a writer’s sched- bathroom, or in the auto repair shop momentum that it took me half the ule and productivity. What’s a writer when your water pump gives up fall to get up to speed again. Even if to do? the ghost halfway through Arizona it’s just a page a day, keep exercising on your way to Disneyland). For those writing muscles. It is amazing First, accept that your usual routine unplanned interruptions (a trip to how quickly they atrophy without may get disrupted. the ER after Jimmy’s “I’m Superman daily work-outs. Consider attending watch me fly,” accident, or a surprise a writer’s conference or convention. family wedding on the opposite Come to Killer Nashville in August Laura looked quite at home in Author’s coast), give the important event your and take part in the inaugural session Alley at Malice Domestic. full attention and make a plan for of Sisters in Crime’s pre-conference catching up with your writing when workshop, Great Beginnings. Read you get back. Even if you’re not more about it on Page 15. writing, you can take advantage of long stays in a hospital waiting room I hope you all have a relaxing, inspi- or the airport lounges by people rational and safe summer. Remember watching and taking notes of dialog, that writing is not just about output, features, gestures, gaits, and more. but also about taking in experiences and people and situations that enrich Fourth, go a (little) easy on yourself. us, grow us, and expand our world We all need a break. Take one. Cut view. Take time for yourself, your back on your daily word count for family and friends, and conversa- a month, or spend two hours a day tions with your SinC siblings, and instead of four on revisions. Summer your writing will be better for it. is too short (at least in my part of the world) and we need to take advan- Laura 4 inSinC June 2014 ¡ ¡ It’s Not Like Reading Bedtime Stories! by Linda Lovely our kids loved to hear you read Even authors with beautiful voices bedtime stories. Your “fee, fi, fo, should think carefully about fum,” rocked the room.
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